Maroon Clownfish (Premnas_biaculeatus)

Dauin, Oct 5, 2012.
The female is usually larger than the male and dark red or maroon, and the male smaller and a bright red.
Habitat: Found in the Indo-Pacific from western Indonesia to Taiwan and the Great Barrier Reef.

''Premnas biaculeatus'', commonly known as spine-cheeked anemonefish or the maroon clownfish, is a species of anemonefish that is found in the Indo-Pacific from western Indonesia to Taiwan and the Great Barrier Reef. They can grow up to be about 17 centimetres . Like all anemonefishes it forms a symbiotic mutualism with sea anemones and is unaffected by the stinging tentacles of the host anemone. It is a sequential hermaphrodite with a strict sized based dominance hierarchy: the female is largest,.. more